Episode 18: Christian Hayles from Bolthole Coffee

In this episode of Be Your Business I meet Christian Hayles, co-owner of Bolthole Coffee in St Leonards and a self confessed coffee nerd. Christian talks about his relationship with coffee and how time alone in a coffee shop became an important ritual for him to connect to himself and spend time alone, and time with his daughter.  He talks about meeting his partner Rhianna through coffee and how they went on to set up a coffee business together. Now open for just over a year it has become a thriving hub of the community.  In this episode he talks about the art of coffee making and the variables that go into making the perfect cup. We also talk about what the magic number is and why it's important. He also talks about growing up in St Leonards and how it has changed dramatically over his lifetime. From an amazing place to live when he was younger with a fantastic community of people, to a place which was completely unrecognisable a few years later, with many social and drug problems. And how the town came back up over the last 10 years to become a trendy and thriving community once more and a lovely place to live.